Originally Posted by
Seekingasylum
Another illuminating vignette revealing the extent of the Thai willingness to scour the gutter of immorality in order to satisfy their rampant avarice.
I stopped eating street food years ago and in those ‘authentic’ market-side stalls when I saw for myself the disgusting squalor of their urban markets replete with running rats, cockroaches and flies settling on their ragged lumps of meat, slimy chicken and piles of pork fat amid offal baking in the stultifying heat.The stink of diluted blood congealing in scarcely open drains merely added to that smorgasbord of horror.
The bottom line is, Thai will always circumvent rules enforcing public hygiene and food standards if they can get away with it and in this land of lax enforcement, endemic corruption, ignorance and incompetence that is pretty much an omnipresent risk. That the innocent and unwary could be duped into consuming their poisonous goods is a matter of supreme indifference to the Thai, they simply don’t give a flying fuck as long as they can make a profit.
The problem of course in dealing with the inherent deceit of the Thai is that in the end no one can really ever know just how safe their food might be given the extent of reckless irresponsibility that permeates this rotten society. The use of banned pesticides and known carcinogenic fertilisers can never be ruled out - how many times have vegetable products been tested in the West for this type of contamination leading to a ban on imports from Thailand, and in imposing this how many times did the Thai government seek to conceal the true facts? I recall it took a university sponsored analysis to expose the scandal that so-called high priced organic products bearing the imprimatur of quality were also contaminated.
The rule is, as with everything in this country, caveat emptor.